People suffering from severe alcohol and opioid addiction are to be offered a revolutionary new technique involving planting electrodes in the brain to modulate brain activity and cravings and improve ...

At two clinics in Oslo and Bergen, a small group of patients have been given a new treatment option for opioid addiction.

For weeks, Steele, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, and members of his lab have traveled to an addiction treatment center in Middletown, Connecticut, where they are ...

A new recovery center in Miami is using a unique approach to treat opioid addiction, focusing on a noninvasive device that stimulates nerves to help with withdrawal symptoms. The device, which is ...

A drug called buprenorphine may be the best tool doctors have to fight the fentanyl crisis. Why hasn’t it been more widely adopted? A dose of buprenorphine, an opioid that can help treat addiction to ...

Project Cure Inc., a nonprofit drug rehabilitation center and one of 12 licensed methadone clinics in Ohio, has long been the only place in Montgomery County where the general public could seek ...

How political red tape and a drug company’s thirst for profits limited the reach of a drug that experts believe could have reduced the opioid epidemic’s toll. Credit...Photo illustration by Ben Denzer ...

In Australia, more than 40,000 people are imprisoned every day. More than half of these people experience drug addiction, including addiction to heroin or opioids. For people released from prison, ...

PROVIDENCE – In recent years Rhode Island has grappled with opioid overdoses across the state. In 2024 there were 272 deaths from overdoses, the majority of them involving opioids, according to data ...